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“I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.”

Littles Left Boys Sea Pride Summer Glory Mercy Depth Broke Streams Length Swim Weary Rude Wanton Bladder

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.”

Men Life Heart Has Beens Use Pain Desire Names Dark Bears Lovers Despair Praise Filled Silent Calm Dear Streams Cheat Astonishment Splendour Perplexed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?”

Heaven Fishes Immortality Streams Ponds

Author:Rupert Brooke

“I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.”

World Dream Beauty Eternal Streams Prophet Tents

Author:John Vance Cheney

“The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.”

Art Turns Focus Thousand Streams Intensity Meadows Mills One Deep

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!”

Should Hands Moving Fall Powerful Listening Mountain Singing Rings Forests Streams Strain Rivals Orpheus

Author:Alexander Pope

“If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.”

Ifs World Should Would Be Clear Drink Streams Pet Giver Pulse Temperance

Book:Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]

Source: Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]

“The stream is always purer at its source.”

Source Streams Purity

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?”

Stills Dream Past Next Sides Sleep Vision Hills Streams Buried Valleys Waking Fades Meadows Anthem Nightingales Adieu Bright Star

Author:John Keats

“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.”

Opportunity Stars Sky Despair Flow Ships Uplifting Streams Dry Leap Where You Are Buckets Afar

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.”

Helping Water Knowing Activity Depth Currents Objectives Streams Definite Strokes Here And There Reeds Swimmer

Author:Margaret Sanger

“Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.”

Mind Past Suffering Streams Leafs Folds

Book:Lie Down in Darkness: A Novel

Source: Lie Down in Darkness: A Novel

“There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.”

Taken Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing

Book:The Complete Cynic

Source: The Complete Cynic

“The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.”

Done Dream Break Hundred Burden Streams Dreamer Lit Fisherman Maidens

Book:A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems

Source: A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems

“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.”

Life Humans Long Moments Running Objects Long Time Lifetime Supposed To Be Human Life Streams Glorious Tides Justification Flood

Author:James Dickey

“Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.”

Mean Effort Silence Quiet Intention Following Technique Streams Keeping Quiet

Author:Mooji

“The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.”

Done Running Winter Streams Brooks Morrow

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.”

Christ Water Cry Divine Cold Red Wine Streams Warmth Tides Cold Water Pow Bashful

Author:Aaron Hill

“There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.”

Looks Country Whole Would Be Past Humanity Powerful Pure Flow Tolerance Generosity Vain Streams Broads European Countries

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.”

Ifs Hard Middle Streams Tides Vocation

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.”

Firsts Stills Running Lines Streams Decline Parallels Quarrels Scarce Dissension

Book:The Poems of Garth, and Tickell

Source: The Poems of Garth, and Tickell

“But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎”

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.”

“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”

“To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.”

Thinking Lying Values Silence Break Solitude Flow Streams Wilderness Cedars

Author:John Muir

“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.”

People World Done Action Sound Voice Silence Enemy Morning Fields Spring Bird Lays Woods Dawn Streams Score New Life Rebirth Witchcraft Dove Chorus Robins Lifeless Marshes Wrens

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.”

Believe Mean Children Earth I Believe Sound Voice Example Wind Streams Take Time Suggestions Thunder Surf Majestic

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.”

Dream Laughing Flower Winter Streams Showers April Maple Blackbirds Tassels April Showers

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.”

God Law Science All Things Tendencies Streams Science God

Book:Literature and dogma

Source: Literature and dogma

“A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.”

Men Long Clear Sky Modern Ancient Possession Forests Streams Wilderness Horizon Priceless Modern Society

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

Humans Important Consciousness Great Things Making Money Streams Acid Psychedelic Human Consciousness Lsd My Biography

Author:Steve Jobs

“For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”

Ends Lasts Nature Sea Return Ocean Rivers Streams

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.”

Should Matter Law Nature Study Expression Communication Source Travel Ocean Unions Streams Wilderness Shore Rays Crossings Magnetic Dealings Aurora

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”

May Ends Lasts Past Sea Return Ocean Rivers Mysterious Streams Origin Of Life Transmutation

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.”

Men Art Self Esteem Self Confidence Esteem Streams Swim One Man Thyself Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it.”

Children Made Government Social Land College Our Children Possession Forests Streams Farms Stigma Signatures Youngsters Dividends Rosters

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.”

World Inspirational Made Soul Self Attention Vision This World Ocean Flow Rivers Paid Burden Made It Your Soul Streams Rise Above

Author:Rumi

“If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.”

Ifs Looks Song Millions Percent Fairs Paid Checks Streams

Author:Jimmy Iovine

“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that it had for the Indians who originally chose this spot as their place to live. The Los Angeles River was a beautiful, limpid little stream, with willows on its banks. It was so attractive to me that it at once became something about which my whole scheme of life was woven, I loved it so much.”

People Heart Littles Country Whole Beautiful My Own Rivers Attraction Spots Attractive Streams Los Angeles Schemes Woven Places To Live

Author:William Mulholland

“Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.Then, pounce.”

Ifs Needs Stills Hard Focus Cold Fishes Streams Worthwhile Shallow Slippery Ankles

Author:Vera Nazarian

“From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.”

People Problem Left Views Company Air Mines Industry Mountain Areas Point Of View Locals Streams Chemicals Toxic Coal Cousin Blast Cozy Toxic Chemicals Aquifers

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.”

“It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.”

Way Heart Soul Use Feelings Speak Language Chance Fire Sea Goes On Holy Singing Breaths Intention Streams Staying Cycles

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.”

Lord Seasons Streams Broads His Love Evermore Seasons Change

Book:Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon

Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon

“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.”

Years Two Soul Facts Happens Hate Fighting Nations Taught Couple Thousand Ocean Years Ago Crosses Bridges Streams Continents Thousand Years Constructs Two Nations

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche